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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, frankja@linux.ibm.com,
	bgardon@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] KVM: selftests: Make vm_create_default common
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 19:54:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c27eb25a-3e4d-7812-3534-22a557443419@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201105184511.GC106309@xz-x1>



On 05.11.20 19:45, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 10:59:30AM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
>>>>> +#define PTRS_PER_PAGE(page_size)	((page_size) / 8)
>>>>
>>>> Doh. I think this 8 is supposed to be a 16 for s390x, considering it
>>>> was dividing by 256 in its version of vm_create_default. I need
>>>> guidance from s390x gurus as to whether or not I should respin though.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> drew
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is kind of tricky. The last level page table is only 2kb (256 entries = 1MB range).
>>> Depending on whether the page table allocation is clever or not (you can have 2 page
>>> tables in one page) this means that indeed 16 might be better. But then you actually 
>>> want to change the macro name to PTES_PER_PAGE?
>>
>> Thanks Christian,
>>
>> I'll respin with the macro name change and 16 for s390.
> 
> Maybe it can also be moved to common header, but instead define PTR_SIZE for
> per-arch?  I'm also curious whether PTR_SIZE will equals to "sizeof(void *)",
> but seems not for s390x..  Thanks,

Thats why I want to change the name. It is not about the ptr size. It is about
number of page table entries in a page. And as a page table is just 2kb on s390
there is a mismatch. So instead of

#define PTRS_PER_PAGE(page_size)	((page_size) / 8)

let us just to
#define PTES_PER_PAGETABLE 256
for s390
and
#define PTES_PER_PAGETABLE 512
for the others

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-05 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-04 21:23 [PATCH 00/11] KVM: selftests: Cleanups Andrew Jones
2020-11-04 21:23 ` [PATCH 01/11] KVM: selftests: Add x86_64/tsc_msrs_test to .gitignore Andrew Jones
2020-11-04 21:23 ` [PATCH 02/11] KVM: selftests: Drop pointless vm_create wrapper Andrew Jones
2020-11-04 21:23 ` [PATCH 03/11] KVM: selftests: Always clear dirty bitmap after iteration Andrew Jones
2020-11-04 21:23 ` [PATCH 04/11] KVM: selftests: Use a single binary for dirty/clear log test Andrew Jones
2020-11-04 21:23 ` [PATCH 05/11] KVM: selftests: Introduce after_vcpu_run hook for dirty " Andrew Jones
2020-11-04 21:23 ` [PATCH 06/11] KVM: selftests: Make the per vcpu memory size global Andrew Jones
2020-11-04 21:23 ` [PATCH 07/11] KVM: selftests: Make the number of vcpus global Andrew Jones
2020-11-04 21:23 ` [PATCH 08/11] KVM: selftests: Factor out guest mode code Andrew Jones
2020-11-04 21:23 ` [PATCH 09/11] KVM: selftests: Make vm_create_default common Andrew Jones
2020-11-04 21:36   ` Andrew Jones
2020-11-05  7:18     ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-11-05  9:59       ` Andrew Jones
2020-11-05 18:45         ` Peter Xu
2020-11-05 18:54           ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2020-11-04 21:23 ` [PATCH 10/11] KVM: selftests: Introduce vm_create_[default_]vcpus Andrew Jones
2020-11-04 21:23 ` [PATCH 11/11] KVM: selftests: Remove create_vm Andrew Jones
2020-11-05  7:08 ` [PATCH 00/11] KVM: selftests: Cleanups Christian Borntraeger
2020-11-05 18:55 ` Peter Xu
2020-11-05 19:41   ` Ben Gardon
2020-11-06  9:45     ` Andrew Jones
2020-11-06 15:04       ` Peter Xu
2020-11-09 17:11         ` Ben Gardon
2020-11-06 13:01 ` Paolo Bonzini

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